Method of manufacturing sinking-weights for fishing-tackle.



A. P. PAULSSON.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINKING WEIGHTS FOR FISHING TACKLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYl, 1911.

1 5O,74c8u Patented Jan. 14,1913.

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ARVID PAULU$ PAULSSON, OF DELSBO, SWEDEN.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINKING-WE IGHTS FOR. FISHING-TACKLE.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14., 1913.

Application filed May 4, 1911. Serial No. 62531805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARVID PAULUS PAULs- SON, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Delsbo, in the Kingdom of Sweden, have invented a Method of Manufacturing Sinking Weights for Fishing Tackle, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fishing tackle sinkers comprising connected weights.

In my improvements a wire is weakened, as by incisions or indentations, at suitable intervals, a tubular fabric is woven thereon, and the sections of wire separated at the incisions or indentations, producing a flexible sinker continuously weighted throughout its length, having a uniform thickness, and a comparatively small diameter for a comparatively great weight by reason of the continuous arrangement and character of the weights. In practice, the wire used is preferably a heavy material oflow tensile strength, such as lead, and it is incised or indented so that it can be separated into independent sections at the desired intervals by any usual means, such as rotary star wheels or toothed drums. The incised wire, which has sufiicient strength to permit it to be handled in the covering operation, has a fabric woven or plaited thereon so as to hold the sections of wire together when such sections have been separated. The Wire having been covered, the sections are separated, which can be efl'ected by passing it between three or more cylindrical rods arranged so that such covered wire will be carried in a zig-zag path and broken at the incisions or places of least resistance.

The accompanying drawings illustrate successive steps in the process of manufacturing my improved sinker and the finished article.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of lead wire; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same after it has been subjected to the incising or indenting operation; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the indented wire section representing the characterpf the fabric woven thereon, part of the fabric being broken away to illustrate the character of the section covered thereby; and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a section of the finished sinker, part of the covering being removed to show the interior construction.

Referring to the drawings, the lead wire a is provided with the incisions or indentations 12 forming the sections a, the wire thus indented has the woven tube 0 placed thereon, and the sections of the covered wire are separated by breaking them apart on the lines d. There is thus formed a sinker that is flexible, substantially uniform in character, continuously weighted throughout its length and therefore comparatively small in diameter for a given Weight required.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. The method of manufacturing sinkers for fishing tackle which consists in forming a series of incisions in a Wire of heavy material, providing the incised wire with a covering fabric and separating said wire by breaking it in the sections incised.

2. The method of manufacturing sinkers for fishing tackle which consists in forming a series of cuts at predetermined intervals in a wire of heavy material, weaving a covering on said wire, and breaking said wire at the cuts.

3. The method of manufacturing sinkers for fishing tackle which consists in weakening at intervals a wire of heavy material so as to provide. readily separable sections, covering said wire so as to connect said sections, and breaking said'sections apart by bending said wire.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARVID PAULUS PAULSSON.

Witnesses:

KNUT ERIcsoN, J. P. HANSEN. 

